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You may like some of the photos in this thread even better:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477173/posts

Not specifically, but there were plans after plans after plans, there was money set aside, there were simulations, there were disaster preparedness tests, but when you have a moron as the mayor of a corrupt city where 2/3 of the policemen loot and/or walk off the job during the disaster, and you have 75% of the city made of people who can't think for themselves due to welfare dependency, this is the result.

Here is the result of one of the simulations (the disease section is a glimpse of things to come): New Orleans-A City in Peril

With all of this information, we will be able to better understand well the social and economic resources of New Orleans area residents. We will also gain more detailed information on evacuation response (Hurlbert, 2003). Preliminary data from the survey are now available. Overall, 68.8% of respondents would leave the area, 9.8% would leave their homes but remain in the area, and 21.4% would remain in their homes. That 21.4% of respondents would remain in their homes is a startling and important statistic. This , because it indicates that nearly 1 in 4 New Orleans residents would refuse to leave their homes as a possibly deadly major hurricane approaches the City.

You are right about the cops being corrupt. My kids lived there. My son and daughter in law had to evacuate. My son in law was also there, in the Coast Guard...he had just transferred out of there in May
They told me last year when I visited how most of the cops were corrupt. Seriously corrupt.

But there are (were) a lot of good people in that city: oil refinery workers, roughnecks, divers (like my son) fishermen, tug boaters, river pilots, chemical and factory workers...plenty of salt of the earth people.

Granted, the city of N.O. had it's criminal and welfare folks, but like anywhere, the workaday folks that you never saw or heard about on the news were there too. They just got in their cars, and left.

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Jane Austin:
>"21.4% would remain in their homes. That 21.4% of respondents would remain in their homes is a startling and important statistic. This , because it indicates that nearly 1 in 4 New Orleans residents would refuse to leave their homes as a possibly deadly major hurricane approaches the City."<

-They get many hurricane warnings every year, that after awhile, people get jaded, I think. So, that's why many stay.

Last year, during hurricane Ivan, my daughter and son-in-law evacuated, drove a couple hundred miles inland, spent a couple hundred bucks on gas, food and lodging, and Ivan completely missed them.

My son, on the other hand, stayed home, saved two hundred bucks, and nothing happened. Lucikly, this time, he evacuated before Katrina hit... But, after a false alarm happens to people a couple times, they start thinking: "I can weather the storm, and why waste a two to three hundred bucks on evacuating, for food, gas and shelter, when nothing is going to happen? It's the old cry wolf syndrome; people get lackadaisical...